Grocery Delivery Lowers Carbon Dioxide Emissions Over Individual Trips

vinces99 writes "Those trips to the store can take a chunk out of your day and put more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. But now University of Washington engineers have found that using a grocery delivery service can cut carbon dioxide emissions by at least half when compared with individual household trips to the store. Trucks filled to capacity that deliver to customers clustered in neighborhoods produced the most savings in carbon dioxide emissions, but there are even benefits with delivery to rural areas."

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Re:Only true for a small portion of the world

[xelah]

Not if the reason you're doing it is because you don't own a car, and yet live within walking distance.